Based on my last post, you may think that rationality is the underlying bedrock of every non-trivial thing that we say or do. It seems like there can be no counterargument for this; everything needs to be weighted against the rational, that’s just the way things are these days. We don’t have time for any nonsense.
Nietzsche, though, rationality had it’s issues, namely that it was rationality that killed the essential spirit of life, that humanity needed to have a source of meaning beyond what cold facts could provide. His arguments that attempt to dissect through everything that rationality was discussing was meant to show that there was not sufficient endpoint, that rationality eventually ate itself. There was no rational doer anymore, just events, so there could be no way to instill a rational order on things. One was left to instead create a mythos that best reflected the sense of joy in living, his will to power.
His own weaknesses come in dealing with others. He seemed to argue for a lonely path, mirroring the lonely life he seemed to be leading. Does that need to be the case? Can some of what Nietzsche was looking for be found in community?
